75 songs to rock you around the world!

There are songs etched permanently in my mind that conjur up images of places I’ve been. For example, listening to Sham the Sham and the Pharoah’s singing “Wooly Bully” while sitting in the back of a pickup truck driving through rice paddies on Bali. It’s not a song about traveling, but it is a travel song to me.

Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs

There are other songs that create visuals of places I’ve never seen like Roxy Music’s “and your destination, you don’t know it… Avalon.” So just for fun, I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite songs – trying to keep with the “travel” theme! These are in no particular order and I got most of the links from YouTube. Some were contributed by friends. I hope you enjoy the list! – Travel Momma

11 You Aint Going No Where – Bob Dylan (need a link!)
Pick up your money
And pack up your tent
You ain’t goin’ nowhere.

The Beatles

12 Back in the USSR – Beatles
(Awesomely starts with airplane noise)
Flew in from Miami Beach, BOAC —
Didn’t get to bed last night.
On the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight!

22 When I Paint My Masterpiece -Bob Dylan, The Band (where’s the links Bob?)
Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble.
Ancient footprints are everywhere.
You can almost think that you’re seein’ double
On a cold, dark night on the Spanish Stairs.

23 Like A Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan (need link)
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

64 The Walking Song – Rufus Wainwright (a song by his late mother Kate McGarrigle)
Wouldn’t it be nice to walk together
Baring our souls while wearing out the leather
We could talk shop, harmonize a song
Wouldn’t it be nice to walk along